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Speculation What plot holes left from the previous films will be finally answered in Episode 7 ??

We have many, many if you will and if they continue the general story leaving the canon in place from the prequel movies, the clone wars cartoon, the new Rebels Tv show, and the Classic OT, then we might be in for more than a few surpises on December 18th 2015.

Some of which come to mind,. I would really like a answer to these.

1.) Who extactly are the Cloners on Kamino, Why didnt they just clone themselves and overthrow the galaxy ?? What was their purpose for cloning for a Jedi ( Who was actually Darth Sidious). I dont want the movie to focus on clones or cloning dont get me wrong, but many sources indicate that Paplatine will return and if he does, why would he not bring up Order 66 prehaps with a few Jedi Hologram cameos.............

2.) Luke Skywalker could have spent many years in Exile when the NT starts, having traveled the galaxy, collecting Jedi Artifacts and holocrons full of the anicent wisdom of past Jedi masters, this could open the door for Ewan McGregor, Liam Neelson, and Samual L Jackson to show up and wrap things up neatly.

3.) What ever became of Jar Jar Binks. Personally I hope He fell into a mutated Sarlacc and is being slowly digested over a million years, but afterall, he did cast the deciding vote on creating the clone army which in turn lead to war and the rise of the Empire. Can we just leave this a open ended question.....

4.) Will the EU be mentioned at all, ??

5.) Did Anakin truely bring balance to the Force, or is that something that Luke will do in this Movie...?

I guess it's not a plot hole, but I'm hoping that the ST will provide a final judgement on the philosophy of the Jedi. I feel like the films never really made up their mind if the Jedi were valiant, noble heroes or a flawed religious institution. Obviously, it's easy to look at how they operated in the prequels and see that they were deeply flawed, but I'm not really sure if it was the intention of the filmmakers to portray them as such. Even the OT, which overall portrayed the Jedi in a more undeniably positive light, still had strains of that old, unlikeable ridgidness, such as when Yoda and Obi-Wan are both convinced that Vader has to be killed by Luke in order to defeat the Sith.

Anyways, perhaps the ST could pick up a little more strongly on this, regardless of the direction they take it. They could have a New Jedi Order that finally finds a perfectly harmonious existence with the galaxy, or a Jedi order that is confronted with their own philosophical flaws as they fail to ultimately save the galaxy at all.

I guess it's not a plot hole, but I'm hoping that the ST will provide a final judgement on the philosophy of the Jedi. I feel like the films never really made up their mind if the Jedi were valiant, noble heroes or a flawed religious institution. Obviously, it's easy to look at how they operated in the prequels and see that they were deeply flawed, but I'm not really sure if it was the intention of the filmmakers to portray then as such. Even the OT, which overall portrayed the Jedi in a more undeniably positive light, still had strains of that old, unlikeable ridgidness, such as when Yoda and Obi-Wan are both convinced that Vader has to be killed by Luke in order to defeat the Sith.

Anyways, perhaps the ST could pick up a little more strongly on this, regardless of the direction they take it. They could have a New Jedi Order that finally finds a harmonious existence with the galaxy, or a Jedi order that is confronted with their own philosophical flaws as they fail to ultimately save the galaxy at all

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Good call. It is easy to see in the PT that much of how the Jedi handled things was much in the way of the fear of things going bad. Luke was able to love without turning. He had love for his friends and his father. He silently proved that a Jedi are capable of having emotional attachments. To Luke, they weren't a hindrance as much as they were a strength that he drew upon.

3.) What ever became of Jar Jar Binks. Personally I hope He fell into a mutated Sarlacc and is being slowly digested over a million years, but afterall, he did cast the deciding vote on creating the clone army which in turn lead to war and the rise of the Empire. Can we just leave this a open ended question.....

4.) Will the EU be mentioned at all, ??

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With 3), I'm hoping JJ blows up Naboo with Binks and the rest of the Gungans with the new bad guy, problem solved! With 4) I'm hoping it will be in some form or another.

We have many, many if you will and if they continue the general story leaving the canon in place from the prequel movies, the clone wars cartoon, the new Rebels Tv show, and the Classic OT, then we might be in for more than a few surpises on December 18th 2015.

Some of which come to mind,. I would really like a answer to these.

1.) Who extactly are the Cloners on Kamino, Why didnt they just clone themselves and overthrow the galaxy ?? What was their purpose for cloning for a Jedi ( Who was actually Darth Sidious). I dont want the movie to focus on clones or cloning dont get me wrong, but many sources indicate that Paplatine will return and if he does, why would he not bring up Order 66 prehaps with a few Jedi Hologram cameos.............

2.) Luke Skywalker could have spent many years in Exile when the NT starts, having traveled the galaxy, collecting Jedi Artifacts and holocrons full of the anicent wisdom of past Jedi masters, this could open the door for Ewan McGregor, Liam Neelson, and Samual L Jackson to show up and wrap things up neatly.

3.) What ever became of Jar Jar Binks. Personally I hope He fell into a mutated Sarlacc and is being slowly digested over a million years, but afterall, he did cast the deciding vote on creating the clone army which in turn lead to war and the rise of the Empire. Can we just leave this a open ended question.....

4.) Will the EU be mentioned at all, ??

5.) Did Anakin truely bring balance to the Force, or is that something that Luke will do in this Movie...?

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I wouldn't expect Jedi/Sith artifacts or anything like that, as they are a purely EU storyline. To introduce things like that would dangerously redefine the Force as it exists in the movies.

I wouldn't be surprised to see a further explanation of Anakin's role in bringing "balance" to the Force, or get further explanation of the force ghosts.

3.) What ever became of Jar Jar Binks. Personally I hope He fell into a mutated Sarlacc and is being slowly digested over a million years, but afterall, he did cast the deciding vote on creating the clone army which in turn lead to war and the rise of the Empire. Can we just leave this a open ended question.....

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Me and my sister were actually joking about this a few days ago. I said "What if they put Jar Jar Binks through these terrible ordeals that he eventually overcomes and becomes a hardened badass in the process, which results in him being the most liked character in the new movies." It would be a neat 180. Have Episode 7 open up with an old grizzled Clint Eastwood-like Jar Jar interrogating a bunch of stormtroopers and torturing them.

I guess it's not a plot hole, but I'm hoping that the ST will provide a final judgement on the philosophy of the Jedi. I feel like the films never really made up their mind if the Jedi were valiant, noble heroes or a flawed religious institution. Obviously, it's easy to look at how they operated in the prequels and see that they were deeply flawed, but I'm not really sure if it was the intention of the filmmakers to portray them as such. Even the OT, which overall portrayed the Jedi in a more undeniably positive light, still had strains of that old, unlikeable ridgidness, such as when Yoda and Obi-Wan are both convinced that Vader has to be killed by Luke in order to defeat the Sith.

Anyways, perhaps the ST could pick up a little more strongly on this, regardless of the direction they take it. They could have a New Jedi Order that finally finds a perfectly harmonious existence with the galaxy, or a Jedi order that is confronted with their own philosophical flaws as they fail to ultimately save the galaxy at all.

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To be honest, if I had witnessed him kill all of my friends including young innocent kids and pushing the galaxy in a 20 year dynasty of Terror, I would want him dead as well. There would have been no forgive and forget...
The only "plotholes" I can think of are:
What happened to the vast military of the Empire?
Did Luke get a girl?
Plotholes from TCW:
What happened to Ashoka?
What happened to Ventress?
What happened to Maul? (Will be adressed in comic book form)
What happend to the Zillo-Beast?

Regarding Jedi/Sith artifacts:
I guess that holocrons are canon, since they were officially introduced in TCW and Leeland Chee is the official keeper of the holocron...

We have many, many if you will and if they continue the general story leaving the canon in place from the prequel movies, the clone wars cartoon, the new Rebels Tv show, and the Classic OT, then we might be in for more than a few surpises on December 18th 2015.

Some of which come to mind,. I would really like a answer to these.

1.) Who extactly are the Cloners on Kamino, Why didnt they just clone themselves and overthrow the galaxy ?? What was their purpose for cloning for a Jedi ( Who was actually Darth Sidious). I dont want the movie to focus on clones or cloning dont get me wrong, but many sources indicate that Paplatine will return and if he does, why would he not bring up Order 66 prehaps with a few Jedi Hologram cameos.............

2.) Luke Skywalker could have spent many years in Exile when the NT starts, having traveled the galaxy, collecting Jedi Artifacts and holocrons full of the anicent wisdom of past Jedi masters, this could open the door for Ewan McGregor, Liam Neelson, and Samual L Jackson to show up and wrap things up neatly.

3.) What ever became of Jar Jar Binks. Personally I hope He fell into a mutated Sarlacc and is being slowly digested over a million years, but afterall, he did cast the deciding vote on creating the clone army which in turn lead to war and the rise of the Empire. Can we just leave this a open ended question.....

4.) Will the EU be mentioned at all, ??

5.) Did Anakin truely bring balance to the Force, or is that something that Luke will do in this Movie...?

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1) How is this a plot hole? They served their purpose for the plot.
2) How is this a plot hole? As far as I can tell as the story stands, all of these characters have wrapped their roles up rather nicely. Until we know the plot of the ST we don't know if any of them will even be needed.
3) OK. You're taking the mickey now
4) Don't know, don't care. Again, how is this a plot hole?
5) Not a plot hole as it stands. Once again, we need to know the plot of the ST and it's a question the ST should answer, but it's not a plot hole right now. IF, in the ST, the Sith do return and yet the prophecy and the chosen one are not mentioned at all, then it could be considered a plot hole I suppose. But right now you're a bit quick off the starting blocks.